waxing your skis

[Trump]

Recently got back from Florida to see my old man welded up a Smitty for pulling my otter pro 1200 cabin all aluminum weighs 15 pounds tops and gave me a set of old downhill skis... question the skis are old but in great shape should I wax the bottoms so it pulls easier or would I not notice a difference if so what kind of wax or is there anything else you would use

[frogmaster]

From a downhill ski racer I say WAX
From a flipover shanty hand puller I say WAX WAX WAX
You can get Highend Racing $$$wax or Cheapend $wax like any ole candel laying around.
I like to get Used / Old Iron from Thriftshop or Salvation Army.  Do NOT turn on Highest setting.  Find the setting that will melt your wax WITHOUT SMOKE!
Hold Iron Tip Down Over the bottom of ski then press wax to iron as you move up and down the ski.  After about 30% ski has wax then place iron on ski bottom and rub it in top to bottom and side to side.  Do this until the ski base "ABSORBES" the wax.  Add more wax as needed.

You WILL feel the difference with LESS Body-Aches

BLESS

[Trump]

Thank you sir that will definitely be happening before next weekend what scent is the best for old candles I'm thinking the wife has a sugar cookie one that would be nice lol

[pascoag icefisher]

I would wax. Sugar cookie is good I use vanilla cake or Ski wax.

[BIGCREW]

If you don't want the hassle of the wax you can use silicon spray the same stuff for waterproofing boots it works good and its fast and easy

[CavScout]

If you don't want the hassle of the wax you can use silicon spray the same stuff for waterproofing boots it works good and its fast and easy

x2.... I auctally use a carwash wax that is spay on and forget. Infact I think then name of it is ICE something..... either way it works great to seal/ slickin up the bottom of sleds. Makes them super easy to pull and is dummy proof and super easy to apply, 

[3300]

back in the day, we used to use cake wax (white rectangle) and just rub onto the bottoms of our snurf boards made of ply wood. used them in sand dunes and snow hills and worked great
if you get wax in cake form you can just rub it onto it and get layers built up that way and will stay longer and nothing else needed
get some bees wax even and rub it on

[BaitBucket]

How many seconds do you think that wax job will last if your pulling that sled across parking lot pavement, or any non snow covered ground?

[3300]

i used wax on a fat ski called a snurf board in the hot summer sand and it would last for days maybe longer, but we had to be fast and kept putting it on just to make sure we had plenty and my weight is more on one ski/snurf board (200#) than what is on 2 skis (50# each ski) on ice/snow using a smitty sled. so i would say weeks at least on the non snow covered ground. every thing is frozen now even the grass.

if some one was dumb enough to drag any thing over pavement, then they have no respect for their personal property and have way more money than i do. its not hard to pull up to where you want to get on at and unload/load sleds or smitty sleds or carry your gear to snow/ice and load the tub/sled. I've seen it done plenty of times and had to a few times

i wouldn't be worried about wax at that point, but i am pretty sure people asking about wax don't drag their tubs/sled over pavement. you won't have any thing to put wax on in a short order of time

[tomturkey]

I use the same way I waxed my old maple skis with one toe strap when I was a kid.

Simply heat up a bar of parrifin (canning wax) and rub it on the skis.

It is a lot simpler now as I use my propane torch to heat the parifin. Then I simply use the torch to level out the wax on the skis.

3300

Do you still have your snurfer? I think I saw some one looking to buy one on Cl Gr sporting the other day.

[3300]

well yes i do and all of the injuries that came with it 
i'll go see what they want to pay for mine, thanks!

some stories that go with it;
back in the old kalamazoo country club in michigan is where we snurfed the most and even down on the toboggan runs, but on the top of the dividers with no rope in our hands and ducking down as far as you canto get the fastest speed because we were racing each other, me and my 3 brothers. took about 10 seconds.

we used to make our own trails thru the woods and once the leafs got a hold of the back of my snurfer and i flew like super man right towards a HUGE tree. all i could do was straight arm it and it busted two fingers. after i got up to cus it out, there were carvings like john loves sue etched into it about where i hit it, but saved my face.

another one, was going down to a long and fast trail with a double jump at the bottom of our trail and my rear foot fell off the the back of the board on the first jump and the rest of me kept going and so i smacked the second jump all crumpled up and busted my rear ankle (right side) and had to slide down from the area sitting to get to a car to get home and use the board as a crutch.

when we were all real young we had skate board tops for riding in the sand dunes as beginner boards. adding a hunk of carpet was like gold back then on bare feet.

UPDATE:
found the guy. wants to pay 10 bucks only. so i am keeping mine
mine is the one on the far left (brown)
http://www.novaksnurfboard.com/images/snurfboard011a.jpg

heres the cheaper version of mine that had wire staples for foot holds and they want 100 bucks
http://muskegon.craigslist.org/atq/4210893530.html

[BaitBucket]

I only brough up the pavement and open ground because im sure some people wont consider it when they do this.

Im fairly certain most people drag their sleds on pavement and open ground to get to the ice. Id say even bare ice would wear the wax off pretty quick
I wouldnt give wax more than a couple yards on pavement of bare ground before its rendered useless.

[tomturkey]

I think the snurfer was patented by Sherman Poppen from Muskegon. It came around long after I was done risking life and limb on sleds, skis, and toboggans.

I have plenty of scars all over my body.

One heck of a scar on my right butt cheek from falling on my rear sliding on my feet in back of our school. I landed on a piece of stoker coal.

My toboggan ended up minus a couple inches of the curl on each side from hitting rocks that were burrid in the snow.

I seldom pull my smitty on pavement or bare ground. When I move my flip around in the garage it is on a moving dolly not draged on the concrete.
I also lost the hood off my coat to a barb wire fence, I forgot about. Luckily the string was not tied around my neck.